Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing · Nebraska

Darling Ingredients Inc.

Ravenna, NE · ~56 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.6
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients Inc. runs at 246% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Darling Ingredients Inc.: 9.6 TCR = 246% of Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients Inc. safety composite

Darling Ingredients Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−7.8

2020→2022

Darling Ingredients Inc. injury rate improved

Darling Ingredients Inc.'s TCR fell 7.8 from 12.6 in 2020 to 4.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 12.6 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=12.6 · 2021=11.4 · 2022=4.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Ravenna, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 246% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #16/17
  • PHOTO Evergood Sausage Co
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Evergood Sausage Co (0.1 TCR gap)

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Darling Ingredients Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Darling Ingredients Inc. averages 9.6 TCR (246% of the Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Darling Ingredients Inc. TCR series: 2020=12.6 · 2021=11.4 · 2022=4.8 · BLS 3.9

Where Darling Ingredients Inc. falls in its industry

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 17 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac employers in Nebraska.

Darling Ingredients Inc. (56 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate Darling Ingredients Inc.
Darling Ingredients Inc. (56 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Darling Ingredients Inc. has fewer employees than the Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2022 4.8 4.8 3 0 0
2021 11.4 9.8 6 1 0
2020 12.6 12.6 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · NE · Ravenna

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 7 employers in Ravenna, NE · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Evergood Sausage Co 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newport 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR NAPP Manufacturing LLC 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Primal Pet Foods 9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bil-Den Glass 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baxter Kenworthy Electric, Inc 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE RRSC Omaha 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE America's Fence Store, Inc 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR KAAPA Ethanol Ravenna, LLC 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Good Samaritan Society Ravenna 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ravenna 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Darling Ravenna 270 31 FTE
NAT-TCR City of Santa Barbara 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Solaris Healthcare North Naples, LLC 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 168580-Wood Dale Po 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 253150-Farmington Po 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Oaks at Lebanon 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG708 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advance Plumbing Company 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Whse 510 - 104th Ave. 56 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.